How much does CPU affect In-game FPS

[Annoyingnerds]

I know this question is asked a lot, but I just want to know how much CPU can affect your gameplay, like if you have a great GPU but not really that good CPU how well would it stack up

[RaspberryPiFan]

It depends. Give me what you are choosing between and I'll tell you.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Depends on game look here

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1289

[EarthboundHero]

It will mostly depend on your game and GPU.

[Phoenix721]

Depends on the game. Games like Cities:Skylines and GTA V really enjoy a good CPU, while others like shadow of mordor don't care at all.

[Glenwing]

14 minutes ago, Annoyingnerds said:

I know this question is asked a lot, but I just want to know how much CPU can affect your gameplay, like if you have a great GPU but not really that good CPU how well would it stack up

Every game has a different balance of how much CPU vs GPU power it needs.

[Moress]

CPU is one of those componets where if you have enough, more wont affect fps,but if you have too little it will by a lot potentially. On the other hand the more GPU power you have the more FPS youll get.

[Annoyingnerds]

Ok, my setup is going to be a GTX 1070 with an i5 3470. How well would it perform

[youravggeek]

9 hours ago, Annoyingnerds said:

Ok, my setup is going to be a GTX 1070 with an i5 3470. How well would it perform

get an i5 4460 better performance for the price if you budget allows it 

[SF101]

22 hours ago, Moress said:

CPU is one of those componets where if you have enough, more wont affect fps,but if you have too little it will by a lot potentially. On the other hand the more GPU power you have the more FPS youll get.

I agree with this statement. 

Essentially if your CPU isn't bottlenecking your GPU then any more CPU power than that gives diminishing returns , you may receive some minor fps gains with CPU upgrades after the bottleneck is surpassed but it will be just that "minor" the cost per performance gains drops significantly after a point.

 

However many will find most stock clock CPU's are bottlenecking their GPU's if they are using anything high end currently. 

 

When DX12 becomes more mainstream and takes advantage of more cores you however may see a remodel in how we think about CPU's /performance 

[Moress]

Better multithreading is something that has been promised for a long time now. Its what AMD gambled on with the FX series and fell on their face because of. 

 

But, some games have taken multithreading very seriously going as far back as Battlefield 3 and the extra cores on my 8350 show that. 

 

The day that I would take a 8 core seriously again for gaming is when an API has native multithreading, which DX12 has shifted towards but still hasnt taken the leap.

 

But I digress..

[PlayStation 2]

14 hours ago, Annoyingnerds said:

Ok, my setup is going to be a GTX 1070 with an i5 3470. How well would it perform

What games are we talking about. That's the only factor. Some games will put up with not a lot of CPU power but an exorbiant amount of GPU power, or vice versa (vice versa being something like Team Fortress 2). Most usually meet in the middle, however.

[Annoyingnerds]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

What games are we talking about. That's the only factor. Some games will put up with not a lot of CPU power but an exorbiant amount of GPU power, or vice versa (vice versa being something like Team Fortress 2). Most usually meet in the middle, however.

I'm talking about BF4 and GTA V

[PlayStation 2]

3 hours ago, Annoyingnerds said:

I'm talking about BF4 and GTA V

GTA V might fare a bit worse than most tests but you should be able to hold an easy 60+.

Battlefield 4 isn't too challenging either. 

[chamath]

On 16/06/2016 at 8:20 PM, Annoyingnerds said:

Ok, my setup is going to be a GTX 1070 with an i5 3470. How well would it perform

I'm having I5 3450 and a R9 290x. From my experience, my CPU has been a bottleneck in some games like GTA V, fallout 4, and crysis 3. In some game areas my CPU hits 100% and GPU usage falls below 80%